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OpinionImpressionsThe New Batman: The Animated Series Board Game Is A Big Box Of Bat Action
While DC handles Batman’s comic book adventures, the folks at IDW Games are in charge of turning the caped crusader’s animated adventures into tabletop crimefighting (or crime doing) for one to five players. There is a whole lot going on inside the box of Batman: The Animated Series—Shadow of the Bat Packed with miniatures, cards,…
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OpinionImpressionsDeath Is Like A Hurricane Here In Darksburg
There’s a sinking feeling I get every time my team in Darksburg gets surrounded by purple-tinted goth zombies. Waves of them break against us, driven back by our attacks, only to reform and come at us again. Surely this is the last one, I think, only to find our party of four overwhelmed once again…
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OpinionImpressionsOld-School Adventure World Of Horror Is Like Stepping Into A Junji Ito Manga
My flashlight casts a trembling light on the dark, dingy school bathroom. My head throbs from concussion, my face stitched up and heavily bandaged. I wonder if anything will be left of my hometown when the riots and thunderstorms give way to tomorrow’s sunrise. The Old Gods are stirring, and the secret to stopping them…
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OpinionImpressions5 Reasons Vanquish Hero Sam Gideon Is Still The Greatest
Today Sega releases the Bayonetta & Vanquish 10th Anniversary Bundle bringing two of Platinum Games’ best to the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 with support for 4K at 60 frames per second. Both games look and play beautifully, but sequel-having Smash Bros. fighter Bayonetta has gotten enough attention. It’s smoking-and-sliding Vanquish star Sam Gideon’s time…
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OpinionI’m Not Sure I Like Snack World But I Keep Playing Anyway
I do not enjoy questing in Snack World: The Dungeon Crawl Gold. It’s boring and repetitive, killing the same creatures on the same maps for underwhelming rewards. And yet I’ve been playing for eight hours and can’t seem to put down my Joy-Cons. What’s keeping me playing? Is it the puns and poop jokes? It’s…
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OpinionImpressionsZombie Army 4 Is Just Another Zombie Game, But It’s A Really Good One
Zombie Army 4 doesn’t reinvent the wheel. If you have played a shooter or a game featuring zombies in the last 5 years, you will have seen almost everything Zombie Army 4 does throughout its story campaign. Big armored zombies, last stand moments against waves of enemies, some RPG mechanics, co-op, special abilities, Nazi zombies,…
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OpinionImpressionsAzur Lane: Crosswave’s Warships Chat A Lot More Than They Fight
Azur Lane: Crosswave, out today for the PlayStation 4 and Steam, is a spin-off of mobile hit Azur Lane, known for side-scrolling shoot-em up action and its anthropomorphic anime warship women. Crosswave is indeed full of cool-looking boat people, but its short spurts of 3D combat leave a lot to be desired. Azur Lane: Crosswave’s…
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OpinionImpressionsI Love The Garbage Children Of Fire Emblem‘s New DLC
I’m just going to be upfront here and say that I never really enjoyed many of the characters in Fire Emblem: Three Houses. As such, my hopes for the secret fourth house introduced in the game’s first major expansion, Cindered Shadows, weren’t very high. But after taking a few hours to complete its isolated storyline,…
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OpinionImpressions‘Art’s Dream’ Is A Stunning Showcase Of What’s Possible In Dreams For PS4
“Art’s Dream,” which was created by Media Molecule to demonstrate the versatility of PlayStation 4 creation tool Dreams, is a two-hour point-and-click adventure, platform puzzler, brawler, side-scrolling shooter, vehicle shooter, and more. All that, plus it’s got four musical numbers. Early adopters of Dreams have been putting Media Molecule’s robust set of creation tools to…
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OpinionImpressionsDead Cells‘ Latest Expansion Makes A Good Thing So Much Better
The only thing in Dead Cells’ latest expansion that gives me more pleasure than cleaving giant mutated fungi in half with a humongous scythe is having my own mushroomed companion fling itself at them with abandon and then explode upon impact. In other words, I’m really enjoying Dead Cells’ new DLC, “Bad Seed.” Out today…
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OpinionHere’s To 20 More Years Of Ashley’s Butt Just Hanging Out In Vagrant Story
As of today, the classic PlayStation 1 role-playing game Vagrant Story is 20 years old. It’s very good and, as ex-Kotaku staffer Joshua Rivera so eloquently wrote back in December, “still holds the heck up” two decades later. This article, however, is all about the main character’s exposed butt, just so you know what you’re…
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OpinionImpressionsIf You Like Celeste But Wish It Had More Swords, Try Scourgebringer
It only took about 15 minutes of zipping around in Scourgebringer for my fingers to start feeling sore. One moment, bell chimes were echoing through a peaceful room. The next, I was tearing through enemies in every direction while some heavy metal kicks up. I’ll strap ice to my knuckles if that’s what it takes…
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OpinionImpressionsIf You Like Phoenix Wright And Animal Puns, Don’t Skip Aviary Attorney
Do you like Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney? Do you like animals? Do you enjoy laughing? You seem like the perfect audience for Aviary Attorney, then. Perhaps you remember when this game debuted on Steam a few years back. Maybe, like me, you noticed it but didn’t end up playing it. Well, now it’s on Switch,…
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OpinionImpressionsA Morbid Platformer Where Every Jump Breaks Your Legs
Platformers are all about jumping, but what happens when your jumps are so powerful that your body literally can’t handle them? That’s the idea behind Legbreaker, a game about figuring out how to maintain the protagonist’s body as they make their way through several sadistic experiments. Legbreaker’s mechanics are simple: the player has a huge…
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OpinionImpressionsDark Crystal Tactics Game Is A Pale Imitation Of The Classics
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Tactics doesn’t live up to the promise of its source material, and is a weak imitation of the PlayStation 1-era tactical role-playing games to which it attempts to harken back. It’s not terrible, but it is disappointing. Revealed at last year’s E3, Age of Resistance Tactics looked like an…
By Ethan Gach
